FLASH: Help...my game gun is shooting blanks...

[John Petroshius]

Hello flashers


I have what appears (I hope) to be a simple problem, but I've been racking

my brain and can't figure it out...


I'm developing a shoot 'em up arcade-style game (I'm stuck in Flash 4 for

the duration of the project), and I have a button instance inside an MC that

I've locked to my cursor, to be used as a gunsight...


I have a Duck MC that I'm shooting at with my gun...inside that MC are

simply two frames, each occupied with it's own MC...


the first interior MC is the Duck flapping along, the second MC is the Duck

getting shot...I have a stop action on the first frame, so the Duck flapping

continues unless interupted...


...I simply want to activate the second (Duck Dying) MC that's sitting on

frame 2 when the gunsight is clicked over the flapping Duck...


but no matter how I seem to code the button instance, I can't for the life

of me get the second Duck Dying MC to kick in when I shoot the flapping Duck

with the gunsight/cursor...


I'm using an IF statement in the button instance where if the

GetProperty/droptarget of the button instance eq the main Duck MC instance,

then a Tell Target is initiated specifying the main Duck MC instance, then I

specify just a Play command...which should get the playback head off the

Stop in frame 1, and on to frame 2...but it won't work...I can't get the

first MC to quit at all...I've tried any number of permutations using

different syntax for the Tell Target and for the GetProperty, but nothing

seems to works...any ideas would be greatly appreciated...TIA



John Petroshius



Prairie Studio

johnprairiestudio [dot] com

847-675-5790



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